A witty tale of romantic people, tangled truths, and a man spectacularly flowerpotting it

Sebastian Wilson wasn’t aspiring to be anybody’s hero – he just wanted to be an actor. Instead, while pretending to be an Irish busker, he drifts through Islington on charm, chance, and an inability to face himself. Somehow, changing lives as he goes.

Fiona Ellery didn’t plan to fall for any man who might stir feelings and then disappear.

Charlotte was too busy for ugly truths.

Rosie, as lonely as her unusual son, Magpie.

And Dame Joan Delaney certainly didn’t intend to adopt a grown man with a trust fund.

But life rarely consults the script – especially when Romeo the cat wanders in, a tiny agent of chaos.

“I laughed. I cried. I called my mother.”